israel hits military targets in syria in response to a mortar shell landing on its territory but spillover from syria's civil war blamed for in danger and the decades long truce between the two states. israel for margot in portugal the german chancellor is greeted with public anger and blame for the austerity that's strangling the country and follows mass protests in greece against the cuts demanded by international lenders. and more heads roll at the b.b.c. now the news chief and her deputy step aside over the broadcasters botched handling of child abuse claims.

world news live from our moscow headquarters you're watching our team with me lucy conference of syria on the syrian conflict continues to break its borders with israel now feeling the ripple effect the jewish state has fired missiles over the border for two consecutive days in response to mortar shells landing in the golan heights are just fall asleep or has more details. a mortar shell landed in an open area near the vicinity of in his lady defense force a military base in the occupied golan heights it did not cause any injuries or damage but israel immediately responded and fired shells now according to israeli military sources they did hit a syrian mobile artillery but we have no more information at this stage in connection with that but certainly the israeli army confirming that they were direct hits taken on the syrian side now the audio was also issued a complaint with the united nations forces in the area they say that any kind of

fire into israel from syria will not be tolerated and that israel will deal with those in the harshest terms this is the second straight day that they has been in water fired from syria landing in northern israel the first incident saw israel responding with warning shots but what is significantly different today is that we are witnessing direct hits now there has been a truce in place between israel and syria since nine hundred seventy three and for the better part of the last four decades there has been an easy peace between these two countries but those latest incidents certainly is sending alarm bells and people are significantly worried that the situation could escape having said this is well does not believe that the mortars that landed in israeli territory were targeted to wards as well but they're rather they are the by products of the fighting that is happening inside syria between rebel forces and forces loyal to

the syrian president bashar assad well along the turkish syrian border there the tensions have been escalating for weeks already a syrian fighter jet earlier bombed a rebel held area near the turkish border and according to the information we have at least six people were killed and more than a dozen people wounded critics say that turkey is partly to blame for the syrian attacks because it has in the past the info. guilty of reportedly harboring and providing weapons to the syrian opposition. marathon talks between serious fractured opposition and qatar scapel doha have seen the formation of a new political body the deal as the result of relentless pressure from the u.s. as well as its european and arab allies who supposedly want to see the current syrian regime toppled but some analysts are questioning whether the newly formed rebel coalition is actually taking the syrian people's interests into account. from the very beginning of the conflict in syria the big question is how much influence

do these groups outside of syria actually have within syria and i think there's a strong argument to say that they don't have much widespread support within syria i think a fundamental point which has been raised is that the future affairs of an independent sovereign country are being discussed by foreign governments in a foreign country that is absolutely outrageous we're talking about the united nations the pillars of the united nations states open sea being completely undermined i mean if there was a domestic crisis for example in spain would it be acceptable for foreign governments to convene in rome the capital bitterly to discuss your affairs of spain it's absolutely outrageous and it's also illegal ones of international who are. israel is planning to going to out a large scale offensive against gaza after it's soured by missiles from the

occupied territories more on that story coming up later this hour. protests have started on portugal's capital lisbon chancellor angela merkel is visiting today people there blame the current german leader for their nation's economic hardships the country had to adopt severe austerity measures in order to receive a bailout that's worth almost eighty billion euros last year our case our first is in lisbon for us. political finances a once again under the spotlight as german chancellor angela merkel meets with the country's president prime minister another meeting comes at a critical time for the country just ahead of the final stages of the toughest budget that the country's seen in recent times and of course in a couple of days portugal will be joined with other eurozone countries including spain and greece in a euro wide general strike the german chancellor is expected to deliver another message of support for the very tough austerity measures that the government has

been pushing through the country's prime minister has always been very supportive of the chancellor's austerity message saying that the only way to get out of this debt crisis is to stick to these very strict requirements that were made under that seventy eight billion euro bailout deal but now whereas in the past three seen portugal by and large having a consensus over the necessity of those hysterically measures and in most of them out in contrast to countries such as greece in recent times we really see the major souring in the government space strong political and popular opposition a key those are starting measures and that's been marked by some of the biggest protests the portugal seeing brussels germany portugal itself they were really hoping for this to be a southern european success story and unfortunately what we've seen happening as we said is is in discontent among the population and also a great concern from

a lot of people that what we're seeing with these very severe measures is a similar thing to what we see happening in greece is that just shaking off any chance of the country getting back on its feet in and of course really being based if i'm joined by bringing a twenty seven years old to with the movement for the unemployed political we seem quite different to greece in that you haven't had these large angry protests we haven't seen rioting she feels that the means changing and that that might be. that portugal might see things that have happened in greece if they continue there will be the militaries the portuguese really to already said that. and other protests will be. again on the streets but not only protests so we are if this budget will be approved for sure we'll get more. for sure because people don't have conditions of living. and no house.

no conditions of health needed people don't have any cares so it's hard to see. the government takes no care about the people thank you very much for joining us as he said all eyes are going to be very closely watching what happens in portugal for this meeting and of course the general strike coming up in a couple of days' time this will probably just gathering here we saw one sign saying merkel it's not working that's a very clear message and i think sums up the sentiment from a lot of the population within portugal and of course that marriage across series they might. all right there's much more austerity pain ahead for greece it looks like the country of course has approved next year's budget which forces new cuts on its already struggling population. thousands gathered outside the parliament to protest the new budget the circle is massive unrest against an austerity package voted through last week of course adopting both bills was a precondition set for release by international lenders who have been blocking

a new bailout funds now john walker lindh from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris says that greece is sacrificing its own economy in order to stay in the euro zone. we can see that the kinds of measures that have been imposed on greece for more than two years because this crisis has been going on for a very long time these measures are actually making the situation worse why are you calling me is in the very for it's been in free fall through every year and the fact is that the greek political class like the rest of the euro give the clubs in a sense i think a prisoner of its own ideology it's the prisoner of the european ideology and this ideology exerts such a power over legal. age to do things which by any rational measure obviously counterproductive in order to preserve the european project of the euro

in particular. are determined to do everything to keep the single currency intact even to destroy their own country to send you. over fifty percent to the economy into a massive recession and so on. italy's excess of scores by stealing the credit agencies that downgraded it using the firms of market man if they send the whole story right there on t.v. and just about. all right well the b.b.c. it looks like is in a bad way but false accusations of child abuse as well as revelations of decades of pedophilia have cause a number of key executives to feel the heat the broadcasters heaven years and her deck of the latest to step aside there's just days after the director general had quit artist laura smith reports from london. the director general george and wessel resigned over the weekend saying that he felt it was the owner of both thing to do

but what might not be seen as the honorable thing to do is that he's currently taking all four hundred fifty thousand pounds of his yearly pay packets despite having been in the job only fifty four days and of course much of that fifty four days he spent some would say ineffectually trying to fight these fires to keep on breaking out the b.b.c. and that money will be paid by the taxpayer just the latest thing is these allegations by a man called steve messam who said that he was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by a senior politician that was reported on the b.b.c.'s flagship current affairs program news night and all only often that was this steve messam shown a photograph of lord mcalpine and he said oh no actually i'm sorry i was mistaken it wasn't him after all if that hadn't been enough in itself of of the jimmy savile scandal again newsnight had done an investigation into jimmy savile who was a much loved children's entertainer back when i was growing up which essentially

exposed him as a paedophile that program though was spiked by b.b.c. b.b.c. leadership they were ordered to drop it at least in part because other parts of the b.b.c. were preparing a programme that said how wonderful jimmy savile was going of course it's not just news that the b.b.c. does they do a range of programs nature documentaries etc etc so it has been a much loved it loved institution and people hope i think that this change of management will will make that be so again let's have a listen to what they say i still follow b.b.c. news and stuff it doesn't yeah i still i still just as easily say we wouldn't deter me from using b.b.c. is an easy thing you see a severely so it's something that really is the unfortunate you can't control the child i was asian for them so i still trust me by broadcasting what are you going to do it will be really different. well while the police the b.b.c. over a number of years has made a series of blunders and been involved in

a number of decisions which have seen somewhat poor judgment areas to do with the reporting of the conflict in the middle east and also an incident surrounding syria where the b.b.c. used a photograph that was taken in iraq in two thousand and three but used it to illustrate a massacre in the syrian city of houla and there was also back in two thousand and three a very serious instance where a b.b.c. journalist revealed that dr david kelly was the thoughts for his report that the government had sexed up the dossier on the weapons of mass destruction in iraq which of course led to the invasion of iraq dr kelly after being outed in that way was subsequently found dead again in the wake of that the director general resigned but this is this is an erosion of trust really that's been going back for some years and earlier we spoke to a british aero m.p. gerard batten who says the b.b.c. could lose its me or stress because of a scandal institutionalized let's. say i mean it's fairly transparent in many of

the stories that i travel in story sprigg xampp who are a membership of the european union or mass immigration cry in the last year in london you do a very kind of left wing politically correct quasar marxist view of the world from the blueberry states they have an interest in presenting stories in a certain wildness and of course now we've got you sadly problem with the climate professional standards that we've seen who jimmy savile issue and the larger issue against the low conservatives here so i think that you know part of the public are waking up to the problems we're going to see which have been apparent long long time. the sex scandal that forced the resignation of the former cia chief is snowballing we report on whatever inhalations of the affair are part of a bigger political cover up. and a terror raid in moscow as police arrested six members of an islamist organization with alleged links to al qaeda accused of fueling extremism in russia all that's

coming your way after the break. i never thought i could earn a living messmate not on the issue of oil is the norm or should test small arms so those photos to machine building ploy and not are the source to count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no wait i'm so tired of shooting. the flawless history goes from making far autumn's doing the world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advance in germans so i was here also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to

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a test drive. low that was fun perhaps i should get one of these to travel to work every morning what's with the cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving money. welcome back italy is striking back after a slew of downgrades that sent its borrowing costs skyrocketing and its financial reputation in tatters prosecutors they are seeking trial for seven officials from standard and poor's and fitch two of the three largest credit ratings agencies they say that the firms have caused havoc on the italian economy well for more now let's join paul over a phone a in rome he's an analyst at the european think tank the c. i.p.i.

foundation thank you sir thanks so much for taking the time to speak with us now these rating agencies of course are being blamed for the money flight from italy but i think just doing what they're supposed to do i mean warning and vester is of trouble. yes you know you do this there were. two consideration by the judiciary a very specific when you silly was in the middle of a major. story and you have a jew who came out who because it really shouldn't sway the market or group and therefore. big crowds of the market about the italian for and that's why because usually it's the. city ok i really want to figure out here i mean is there a legitimate court case here these aren't private i mean pardon me these are private firms or not official government body is i mean is this sort of

a case of italy perhaps trying to browbeat the ratings agencies into being more lenient with them and not really being happy with the squad they've been given well certainly the private agencies that they intervene on funding which is very much public and state only to the sovereign debt therefore it is convenient that they do so while. they should abide to some kind of restraint especially when the market is to open for id. really. the first time that the judiciary of the former state is fighting back. so you believe that this is the right move to sort of fight against these agencies i don't care if it is right or wrong right but it is certainly the expression they're the initial stage additional assistance is to do independent from the government for global governance is the rating agencies are trying to pull their

forty five invest so the national reaches. concerts. at the same time i mean his range is really became famous and interest across the globe among the lay people because of the eurozone crisis do you feel that perhaps these court cases are some merely increasing their publicity and sort of making them seem more important and significant than they actually perhaps are. when they are very significant in their very impacting not only on the situation of. states we have in the edition of the greece i mean the attack that greece went through. and the greek problem dates were true before. the end of. the ring if you will similar to what we were through i mean let's remember that we had a big government at the time who were. elected to. prevent

the backroom grading leaders followed them from the bank of europe and the board has been required. to go beyond the normal value. all right while hollow refining analyst at the brussels based think tank the c.i. power foundation thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us what. israel is considering a full scale military offensive against gaza following the latest round of fire exchanges with militants from the occupied territory around one hundred rockets landed in israel over the weekend while airstrikes were launched against sites inside gaza activists and writers ok tran says the potential military move requires public backing well we're seeing military interventions on an ongoing basis air strikes have been occurring regularly since saturday by now i believe total of seven people have been killed including three children

a thirteen year old was killed playing soccer east of khan yunis two more children were killed again on saturday and then two young men responding in the rescue also killed by israeli fire but in terms of ground invasion of the type we saw in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine i believe the israeli government is laying the groundwork for a possible action of that sort in boston or public opinion among israeli supporters so netanyahu is trying to move some pieces into place but at the present time i think he recognizes they simply aren't there. there was congress as the manning more answers from the f.b.i. over the extramarital affair which forced the cia chief to quit just a few days ago politicians say that they have to trace this resignation hit them like a lightning bolt so now they want to know just how much national security was compromised and why nobody told them about this sooner and that's it of journalist james corbett thinks there's a much bigger political picture behind the scenes the question has to be why this

scandal is emerging now why is it is embroiled in general petraeus and what information did he have that would potentially have been interesting to people who would have been interested in bringing him down and this actually we can start to get to see some of the pieces of this puzzle emerging as it becomes clearer now that that there is the indication that he will not be testifying in upcoming congressional hearings into what happened in benghazi in september and because of that some key information about what happened in benghazi might not come to light including some interesting information that just emerged in recently that in fact last month general petraeus is alleged mistress that sort of broadwell was going around giving speeches about how the cia annex in benghazi was being used as a secret prison which is why it was cut why it was attacked in september so there are some very very big things that are emerging right now and it looks like the

operation to take down but to petraeus at this particular moment might be motivated by some of those backdoor political dealings rather than the sex scandal that is that supposedly made out to be. more details about the scandal for you on our website our to dot com. learn about sparked the investigation against a former cia boss and whether his indiscretions were hushed up in order to help the obama campaign. all started that. demonstrate and joni to occupy activists question blanch early and hundreds of americans from their dead online or team. russian police have smashed a terrorist cell here in moscow breaking into a hideout and making arrests more details now from march. the police of

six people are suspected to be members of an international islamic terrorist organization authorities say that they recruited supporters in several mosques across the city spreading radical ideas to the investigators have also found nine donates guns ammunition extremist literature and instructions on how to recruit people in their hideouts an investigation is still underway perhaps that's why their names haven't yet been released but we do remember a similar story just a few months back in august another man was arrested suspected of being a member of a different international terror network and from moscow these are yet new reminders that international terrorism is not something very far away these people could be here operating and scheming right in the russian capital. britain's brain drain could soon leave the country desperately short of skilled workers that's according to

a recent report suggesting the number of professionals chasing work abroad has soared in the past two decades. has more. london one of the global financial sun says it was even voted the best place to visit on the won it last year but it looks like fewer people want to actually live in britain the u.k. home office has just released or of course that says that an increasing number of executives scientists and academics are choosing to leave britain last year alone some one hundred fifty thousand new cases this isn't emigrates a day of the season and now some five million brits live aboard and don't blame the unpredictable weather or the local cuisine experts now say that it's the high rates of taxation and the cost of living that could drive even more brits to move abroad people with the motor of the economy are people with

a lot of property approach with an education perhaps with ambition as well we need to keep them in the country you have to face a life of living in london on a very small gross wage maybe even smaller by taxation to a net wage. which we fail as a country and perhaps some sort of system of graduated tax allowances might help us cope perhaps most alarming for the politicians and the home office findings that the majority of the people that opt out of think you take rat race do so also of an overall lifestyle choice signalling and discontent with living standards here in britain that's not the answer. we tell a national government to slow things for me consider moving abroad to avoid. the government slacking off and taking away the good things from the people a little bit more even though it's through hard work and dedication over here is that he work until you drop but they don't want to reward us so what's the point of

continuing companies are already complaining that they find it hard to find highly skilled. no foreigners to work in the u.k. because of the u.k. government's current one migration in order to cut immigration into the country now the growing number of young ambitious brits packing that i might leave the british government wondering where all the professionals have gone. that's it for me this evening thanks for tuning in up next as crosstalk what could about. culture is that so much i mean and which of course is right on it again so here it is the day of fiscal reckoning is almost upon us by the end of this year the

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